Human brain cells are required to play Atari’s Pong, but definitely not in this way. A team of scientists from Melbourne demonstrated that 800,000 brain cells living in a petri dish can teach themselves how to perform goal-directed tasks, such as playing a game.
Rather than simply use AI simulations, scientists are now able to experiment using real brain function rather than flawed analogous models like a computer by building a living model similar to the one in this experiment. Future experiments could include the effect alcohol has when introduced to DishBrain and how they perform at Pong afterwards.
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In the past, models of the brain have been developed according to how computer scientists think the brain might work. That is usually based on our current understanding of information technology, such as silicon computing. But in truth, we don’t really understand how the brain works,” said Brett Kagan, chief scientific officer at biotech startup Cortical Labs.
